calling all haikuers!!!

madameshawshank · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:34 am Post subject: calling all haikuers!!!

ah...you've arrived at the Help Desk!

we're having a "Once Upon a Time Party"...things fairytaleish...

'n are hoping to have many fairytaleish haikus printed on large sheets of paper...placed high up near the ceilings....party folk are going to have to put fairy tale to haiku...

much Rapunzel plait making..pumpkin coach making...this, my friends, is a party and a half! glass slipper...I suggested we make one out of toffee... Rolling Eyes

thought the family..

so, any haikus from you would be a wonderful help...

merci in advance
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Rainey · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:45 am Post subject:

madame- If only I could... I'm afraid I've never had the gift or the discipline.
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madameshawshank · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 1:56 am Post subject:

Rainey Darling...your reply was the haiku..

now how Zenish is THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Rainey · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:11 am Post subject:

You're kind to be so encouraging but I'm over 17 syllables and aren't there other rules? Something about being about nature, having three lines and the third line being a non-sequitur?
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madameshawshank · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 2:34 am Post subject:

rules smhules Rainey....

for moi, the rules are 3 lines and the 5/7/5 thing

'n that's it...from then on ya play in the haiku sandpit...

sunstreaked apple blossom de winter

Rainey 'n haiku
perhaps food-based is the go
yeasty wordy feast

Sophie, our daughter, is wondering why I've not mentioned the planned gingerbread house..."it being a food forum and all" said she Wink

rules ask to be either broken or stretched...

'specially the rules of haiku...

Rainey, take a trip to the seaside....bucket 'n spade...and splash the rules a bit...

haikus are awaiting..
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gingerpale · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1324

Calling all fairies
Help to bring Madame back down
To earth...both feet please

madameshawshank · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 5:24 am Post subject:

gingerpale darlin'...then why do I have wings? Wink

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gingerpale · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1324

Deadline for party haikus? Party over, or just getting planned? Anyhoo, here are 2. (I tried!)

Pampered princess seeks
Nothing. Fairyland is hers
And one extra pea.

Go answer the door!
It's Hans Christian Andersen!
And he's got a book!

BG · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 29 Location: Cambridge, MA (USA)

Such compressed poems
with seventeen syllables
can't have much meaning.

(stolen from Godel, Escher & Bach by Douglas Hofstader).
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gingerpale · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1324

Haiku! the chores can do themselves--

Also from "G,E,B:", but paraphrased--

The following words
Are false. The preceding words
Are true. Help me know!

BG · Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 29 Location: Cambridge, MA (USA)

Oh, for goodness' sake!
Gingerpale from 'way out West
has one-upped me -- Zap!
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madameshawshank · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:08 am Post subject:

hey team haiku ~ how about keeping on course Wink

FAIRYTALE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

this gig is on 12 August ~ my husband has made an exquisite fairytale book (I've been elected the storyteller ~ will be singing "The Ugly Duckling" ~ 'n my costume is connected ~ one of the lines "snowy white back" ~ will buy white boas ..stitch them together and ..there you have it...moi back covered in white swan feathers..)

by the way....ain't haiku a treat and a half...

childlike? for all

through all the ages
muds and palaces alike
fairytales journey
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gingerpale · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 1324

Sorry Madame, just a little wordplay with Massachusetts, it was fun!

Will furrow brow, chew pencil, think about very small people with wings and such.

Judy · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 5:06 am Post subject:

Oh dear, I fee like such a klutz even mentioning this in such exalted company, but I don't even know how to start composing a kaiku. So can we just sneak back to Poetry 101 for a minute, please?

3 lines, 17 syllables, right? But the syllables have to be distributed in a certain way, don't they? And what other rules are there? And if any of you can tell me the all rules in a haiku, I'll give you extra points. Thanks BG, but I get the feeling thereare rules more than you described on yours, non?
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madameshawshank · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:56 am Post subject:

Jude's Haiku 101

three lines 'n cutting
five seven five syllabled/
kigo eg snow

Judy Darling...the kigo is a seasonal word...so traditionally one should know what season the haiku is set in...the cutting divides the haiku..the two sections are connected, yet not

now, with pen in hand, and breathtaking handmade paper, go to it!

the alphabet awaits...playtime!!!
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